Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy

Posted by Roosevelt Institute on May 18, 2015

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity. You can download the report and watch the live launch event in DC at http://rewritetherules.org.

Inequality is not inevitable: it is a choice we make with the rules we create to structure our economy. Over the last 35 years, America’s policy choices have been grounded in false assumptions, and the result is a weakened economy in which most Americans struggle to achieve or maintain a middle-class lifestyle while a small percentage enjoy an increasingly large share of the nation’s wealth.

Piecemeal reforms are insufficient to address the deep structural problems in our economy. That is why Roosevelt Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz has authored a new comprehensive policy agenda aimed at overhauling the laws and institutions that shape the economy and to reduce inequality and improve economic performance.

Roosevelt launched this agenda in Washington DC Tuesday, May 12th, alongside Senator Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Bill de Blasio and a panel of expert economists and strategists including TIME’s Rana Foroohar, Heather Boushey, Stan Greenberg, Simon Johnson, Bob Solow, and Lynn Stout.

You can read the report and watch a recording of the launch at http://rewritetherules.org.

To establish rules and institutions that ensure security and opportunity for the middle class, the agenda offers solutions to make it more likely that economic policy results in:

• reformed financial and corporate sectors that focus on long-term growth;
• full employment, rather than greater inequality;
• empowered workers;
• expanded access to labor markets and increased opportunities for advancement; and
• expanded economic security and opportunity.

If you missed the livestream, you can catch it on http://rewritetherules.org.